October 22, 2007

Using Illustrator to print money; more

After my tutorial this week, one of the attendees approached me, telling me how much he enjoyed the session. Then he told me he’d like to present me with a gift — a quarter. No, he wasn’t trying to bribe me to lobby the Illustrator team for multiple pages. But it was a special quarter indeed, because he designed it.

Mutating Pictures uses artificial selection to create faces. “[It’s] striving to generate human likenesses out of random blobs — 1000 random pictures have been uploaded to the site… The most human-like are used to spawn 1000 new offspring, mutated from their genome, and so on, until the perfect human face emerges.” [Via]